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[RC] basic education talk - Susan Garlinghouse

Ok, this by all means doesn't even start to solve the issue of disseminating
more education to the newbies-and-not-newbies, but I figure, start at home
and go from there.  So here's my two-cents effort.

I just got an okay from AERC and the convention committee to add an extra
seminar at the Reno convention.  I'm already scheduled to do a talk on how
to address specific problems like tying up, thumps, etc.  But, it's occurred
to me more than once that we ALL can get so caught up in the minutiae of
things (including my personal soapbox, nutrition), that we forget the
basics.  And if we already know the basics, well, review never hurts.

So, we don't know the scheduling yet, but I'm going to do an additional
lecture this year aimed at the bare bones basic stuff.  A lot of very basic
nutrition, but I'm also going to thump on a few physiology issues like what
every rider should understand about dehydration, tissue recovery, some basic
energetics, heat dissipation issues, things like that.  Obviously, you won't
catch me talking about the things outside my ken, like rider strategy or How
To Condition For Biltmore or whatever, but just the stuff I'm pretty
comfortable with.

I know not everyone is able to get to convention.  What I would like to ask
is whether there is someone that is planning to attend, that has a strong
background in technical writing, that would volunteer to write up a one page
summary of the information to put onto the AERC website, EN, make available
to ride managers, hand out at clinics, or whatever.  By all means, whatever
I have to say is not the final word on anything, but it's a lot better than
ZERO and it's at least a start.

So, lemme know and maybe we can start a more formal program of publishing
lecture notes for long-distance education purposes, eh?

Susan Garlinghouse DVM




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